The employment effects of immigration: Evidence from the mass arrival of German expellees in post-war Germany

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This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were close substitutes to the native West German population, and were very unevenly distributed across labor market segments in West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however, limited to labor market segments with very high inflow rates. IV regressions that exploit variation in geographical proximity and in pre-war occupations confirm the OLS results.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1725

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
• Subject: Forced migration ; native employment ; post-war Germany ; Flüchtlinge ; Einwanderung ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Arbeitsmarktsegmentierung ; Bevölkerung ; Alte Bundesländer ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Braun, Sebastian ; Omar Mahmoud, Toman
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49384
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